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[campaigns] by Luis Lázaro Tijerina I remember once reading a statement by Joseph Stalin in which he quipped with dry understatement “If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference’, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” On June 12, 2018 President Trump and the leader of North Korea, Kim John Un, met on Sentosa Island in

By Orly Noy The 21-year-old paramedic was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while trying to aid wounded protesters near the Gaza-Israel separation fence. Many Israelis either refuse to believe she was actually killed or claim that her killing was somehow justified. Around two weeks ago, a Facebook friend of mine proposed an experiment to a small group of us. Social media has become a boxing ring, she said. The

by Andrew KORYBKO The steady deterioration of relations between these two erstwhile long-time allies is continuing with the latest political crisis between them that was sparked by the US’ decision to limit the distance that Pakistani diplomats in DC could travel outside the city. Islamabad imposed reciprocal measures against American diplomats located anywhere in the country, and the situation has since remained frozen, but is nowhere near resolved. While American-Pakistani

Fatal shooting in Malaysia puts spotlight on Israeli spy agency’s policy of targeted killings of Palestinian operatives. by Ali Younes The killing of 35-year-old Palestinian scientist Fadi al-Batsh in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur has taken the wraps off a covert programme of targeted killings of Palestinians deemed a threat by Israel. Al-Batsh studied electrical engineering in Gaza before going on to earn a PhD in the same subject in

The voluntarist creed that’s ruined our foreign policy was predicted by C.S. Lewis decades ago. By Paul Grenier America’s way of acting in the world, the violence it often does to the truth while asserting its will, cannot be explained simply through its alleged “interests.” The U.S. acts the way it does because of the peculiar American way of understanding what gives life and action meaning. At the core of

If you are a Western journalist and you have to report from Gaza, the best thing to do is to treat the Palestinians as a threat. Their bodies are weapons, their existence is dangerous. If a Palestinian is killed by an Israeli soldier, the most appropriate thing to do is to call it a “clash.” Clashes take place when two armed forces confront each other. Unarmed Palestinians are armed by

London has overtaken New York City for number of murders for the first time in over 200 years under the mayoralty of Labour’s Sadiq Khan. Britain’s multicultural capital edged ahead of the American city — once so notorious for its high crime rates that it was chosen as the setting for Charles Bronson’s Death Wish –– in February, The Times reports. London saw 15 killings to New York’s 14 over the

by Tyler Durden This time it’s different… The graph show search interest on Google, based on data from Google Trends. he shown plots are based on a moving average of 6 months to reduce noise. Source: Reddit Is what’s old about to become new again? Futurism urges ” Help us, Tom Anderson (MySpace Tom). You’re our only hope…” https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-28/life-and-death-social-networks-one-chart